WC840 on my megacab..questions

Jfresh wrote:

twodownzero wrote:
A SRW Megacab is too heavy to carry even the smallest of truck campers.

This a false statement. A megacab is not significantly heavier than a standard cc pickup.

And your point being? A standard quad cab pickup that is a 3/4 ton, 4wd, diesel, has about 1600 pounds of payload. All but the smallest popups will overload it.

JIMNLIN wrote:

Yeah. A whoppin' 173 lbs heavier than other same wheel base configured 2500 Cummins 4x4 trucks.

1600 pounds - 173 extra pounds doesn't leave enough payload for any meaningful truck camper.

The OP just as anyone that wants to carry a heavy payload in the bed of any truck needs to weigh his trucks front and rear axles separately and pay attention to the trucks RAWR/tire capacities as it will carry just about all the weight on a short bed truck. In some cases a TC can unload the trucks front axle on a short bed.

Probably not necessary. The truck is so heavy already that GVWR - curb weight will determine payload; highly unlikely that he'll be able to bust either axle weight rating before the GVWR.

I've seen a lot of 2500/3500 SRW Mega cab rear axle weights which most are in the 3000-3200 lb range. That leaves 2800-3000 lbs for a payload.

Again, ignores GVWR. 8800 lb gvwr - ~74-7500 lb curb weight = payload, and in case you can't do the math, it's nowhere near 3000 pounds.

A 1 ton adds 1100 more pounds of GVWR, which is left totally unacounted for in your post. In other words, you're dead wrong.

Now the OP can mod the trucks small 6000 lb rear suspension with aftermarket products we all use. And he can upgrade wheels and tires to a higher capacity.

Or just use what he has and keep front and rear axle/tire weights under those numbers.

And those things will do nothing to raise his GVWR, which will be overloaded by a significant margin with even the smallest of hard side truck campers.

I reiterate my point: a SRW 3/4 ton megacab does not have sufficient payload to carry any meaningful type of truck camper. At the risk of choosing an arbitrary line, 2500 pounds of payload are the minimum I would look for. 3000 would be safer. Putting a truck camper on a truck with 1600 pounds of payload is ridiculous. The truck will be overloaded by thousands of pounds if you carry any passengers or pack any gear. That is not safe no matter what kind of aftermarket equipment you install.

If you want the longest wheelbase, the biggest cab, 4wd, the heaviest engine, and all the options, you will have to buy a heavier duty truck. This is not a situation where you can "have it all."